#epistemicviolence
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #epistemicviolence from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-08-03 04:51 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-08-03 04:51 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #epistemicviolence.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-08-03 04:51 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 18 public posts (spanning ~28114 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 13:00
Languages: English (12) · German (3) · Turkish (3)
Avg boosts / post: 4.4
Top of the latest posts
For the Global Majority world, the dilemma is sharp. Many languages and knowledge traditions are underrepresented in training data. But “fixing” that via ungoverned scraping turns communities into data sources, not decision-makers. I argue
3. it is important that we name properly what is happening. a. banning books and words is what Gayatri Chkravorty-Spivak described as #EpistemicViolence. it’s the “my way or the highway” way of speaking and thinking that is at the heart of
Auch wenn Digitalität beim #DOT2026 eher marginalisiert wird, ist zu meiner Freude heute mein seit langem im Publikationsprozess steckender CLIO Guide zur Digitalisierung des Kulturerbes der Gesellschaften des Globalen Südens online gegange
#epistemicviolence across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #epistemicviolence straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/epistemicviolence